The measure of artistic merit is the length to which a writer is willing to go in following his own compulsions. — John Updike Copy Share Image
So often the shortest distance to happiness is the length of an about-face. — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
May peace-dreamers And peace-lovers Occupy the length and breadth Of the world. — Sri Chinmoy Copy Share Image
Man yields to death; and man's sublimest works Must yield at length to Time. — Thomas Love Peacock Copy Share Image
The length and breath of our influence on others are directly related to the depth of our concern for them. — John C. Maxwell Copy Share Image
Right before I'm about to talk at length about something I like I say, Get me started. — Demetri Martin Copy Share Image
Those things of real worth in life are worth going to any length in love and respect to safeguard. — Julia Hill Copy Share Image
My short stories have always pushed twenty pages. That's no length for a short story to be. You either do them short… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
It's only merit was in being the first publication which carried the claim of our rights their whole length, and asserted that… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Where there is a lull of truth, an institution springs up. But the truth blows right on over it, nevertheless, and at… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Twenty-four-hour room service generally refers to the length of time that it takes for the club sandwich to arrive. This is indeeddisheartening,… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
If the length of your life is much shorter than the story of your life, this means that you have lived your… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
“The volume of your impacts is measured by the direction of your movements, the passion with which you inspire and the attitudes… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
Sometimes a fireman will go to great strenuous lengths to save a raccoon that's stuck in a drainpipe and then go out… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
My salvation has very little to do with anything that I have done... Jesus will go to any lengths to draw us… — Rich Mullins Copy Share Image
So all of these companies that are going for the big growth, if it continues for any length of time, will outlast… — Yvon Chouinard Copy Share Image
We are expected to put the utmost energy, of every power that we have, into the service of our fellow men, never… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
We stared at the odd garment and wondered what it was for. 'What is it?' asked Larry at length. 'It's a bathing… — Gerald Durrell Copy Share Image
“In all tests of character, when two viewpoints are pitted against one another, in the final analysis the thing that will strike… — MIke Dooley Copy Share Image
I've done things that I wouldn't ordinarily seem capable of doing. And I've proven myself in situations where there's life and death… — Jack Kirby Copy Share Image
I therefore concluded, and decided unhesitatingly, that there are three stars in the heavens moving about Jupiter, as Venus and Mercury about… — Galileo Galilei Copy Share Image
Build thee more stately mansions, O my soul, As the swift seasons roll! Leave thy low-vaulted past! Let each new temple, nobler… — Oliver Wendell Holmes Copy Share Image
If someone wants to say 'I love you' in a straight play, they say it, and then it's the other person's turn… — Marsha Norman Copy Share Image
There is no doubt that solitude is a challenge and to maintain balance within it a precarious business. But I must not… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
On May 15, 1957 Linus Pauling made an extraordinary speech to the students of Washington University. ... It was at this time… — Edward Condon Copy Share Image
My name is Mary Katherine Blackwood. I am eighteen years old, and I live with my sister Constance. I have often thought… — Shirley Jackson Copy Share Image
I'm tall for the weight class. I am built to go in and stand in front of the man and trade bombs… — Chris Algieri Copy Share Image
Lying is a crime the least liable to variation in its definitions. A child will upon the slightest temptation tell an untruth… — Joseph Priestley Copy Share Image
It hardly needs explaining at length, I think, how much authority or beauty is added to style by the timely use of… — Desiderius Erasmus Copy Share Image
That perhaps is your task--to find the relation between things that seem incompatible yet have a mysterious affinity, to absorb every experience… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Just imagine the banner headlines if a marine biologist were to discover a species of dolphin that wove large, intricately meshed fishing… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
